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Pisan Carrots
Thanksgiving 2014 | A Menu Poem
Guest of Honor: You!
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Hello and welcome to the thirteenth incarnation of the Thanksgiving Menu-Poem. This
year the guest of honor is you! Yes, you sitting right there reading this, I do
mean you. Hip, hip hurray and thank you for your kind support, your wonderful nature,
your continued love for poetry, your willingness to open your life to weird little
books like the ones we make at BlazeVOX! Even if this is your first time here or
this is your thirteenth thanksgiving with us, hurray and thank you for joining
in on the fun of a Menu-Poem and I hope you enjoy the celebration.
Beginning in 2002 with a Menu-Poem to honor Charles Bernstein, I have continued
this series of texts using a menu as the basis to honor prominent poets. Being a
trained professional chef I wanted to blend my love of food and poetry into a book-length
work that would fit within the ideas of Thanksgiving. In a feast of words, I wanted
to honor poets who have meant many things to many readers in a form that could be
presented to everyone. Over the years we have honored many fine poets, but last
year we had a bit of a fiasco, a wonderful poet declined the Menu-Poem for very
fine reasons. So to pick things back up, we decided it was best to dedicate this
poem to you, the reader, and bring you in on all the fun. Hurray!
I would also like to take this opportunity, on a day of giving thanks, to say a
special thank you to everyone who was kind enough to be there for me during this
tumultuous year. I had a major health scare over the spring and summer, which you
can read about on the BX blog. That is now a thing of the past and I am happy and
healthy once again. The outpouring of support was something that made my wife Donna
and I feel just grand. So to say 'Hurray, I am still alive' and to say thank you
all, this Menu-Poem is dedicated to you.
This Menu-Poem differs just a touch from previous incarnations. In the past, each
poem was set next to a course of a large dinner. This would be, for example, the
soup course or main course with a line or two of text describing each menu item
that would be served to accompany the forthcoming poem. This year, each poem is
set next to a Taste Poem. Since some things cannot be spoken, some events surpass
what the tool of language is able to provide, some things are just known to each
of us on an individual level, these taste poems expound on what cannot be ingested
by reading. The instructions are vey simple, to gather up the ingredients and eat
them one at a time to enjoy their flavor, texture and sensuousness and then move
on to the next item. Work your way through the lot of items and there you have
it, a taste poem. Then move on to read the poem that is next to it, they are just
poem poems and you are already up to speed on that, so hurray!
And one last bit of information for you before you begin reading. The cover art
is a painting by Donna White. It is a portrait of our dear pumpkin from last year,
as he was our 2013 Thanksgiving pumpkin. It was with us for over nine months and
stayed around, until he turned to pulp in late August of this year. There is a
poem for him in this grouping, which I do hope you enjoy. We do miss him terribly
and his silly face.
Hurray and Happy Thanksgiving
Rockets, Geoffrey
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Table of Taste Poems
* The Magic of Sunshine on White Metal
* On A Raft Blown By The Wind
* I offer my thoughts on the continued silence of the dead
* To all the trees lost in war, I lift my arms and open my shirt
as if in tithing myself to the falling rain. I offer my open sores, hoping for a
holy purification, or a deadly infection so that my days of regret and pain shall
pass by as easily as the storm clouds above.
* The sleepwalker, now knee-deep in snow, dreams he is transformed
into a landed meteorite, set in place, planted, as an onion in a farmer's field.
* You disappeared like a hole enveloped by water
* The orange plumes of everydayness
have nothing more to give, Ever since the plum days have past.
* To be placed on the menu of my last meal
Table of Poem Titles
* Earth Revolves Itself Once Again
* Resplendence
* I'm OK now; I must have eaten something that disagreed with me.
* Watching last year's pumpkin transcend determinism
* Mine is the Sunlight
* Henry Darger Dreams of Emily Dickinson
* We Are Here
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